{"id":7103,"date":"2017-07-06T00:08:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T05:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2017-07-17T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T23:06:39","slug":"7103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7103","title":{"rendered":"CONSISTENCY MATTERS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Rabbi Evan Moffic:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Consistency is not just practical. It is sacred.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Talmud\u2014the ancient book of Jewish laws and wisdom\u2014the rabbis debate the most important verse of the Bible.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

One rabbi says it is the Shema. We know that prayer. Jesus quoted it as well. Taken from Deuteronomy 6:4, it reads, “Hear, O Israel: The\u00a0Lord is\u00a0our God, the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is one.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a solid answer. Belief in one God is the\u00a0foundation of the\u00a0Jewish\u00a0faith.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another rabbi suggests, however, that Leviticus 19:18<\/span><\/span> is the better choice, Known as the golden rule, it reads,\u00a0\u201cLove your neighbor\u00a0as yourself.\u201d It\u2019s hard to argue with this answer.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, another sage gives a third option. He quotes an obscure verse from the book of Exodus. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOffer one in the morning and the other at twilight\u201d\u00a0(Exodus 29:39), he says, referring to the daily sacrifice\u00a0offered by the priests\u00a0every morning and every\u00a0evening\u00a0in the Jerusalem Temple.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What a odd choice! It\u2019s like comparing a toaster’s instruction manual to Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet. The third rabbi\u2019s answer doesn\u2019t even seem to be in the same\u00a0league as the first two.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet, all the other rabbis quickly agreed with this final answer!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What were they thinking? They recognized, I think, that the little things are the big things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to be righteous every once in a while. It\u2019s\u00a0easy to say we believe in God\u2026or promise to live by the golden rule.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s another thing to live our values every day. A rainbow is beautiful when it is in the sky. But it is fleeting, soon forgotten.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sun,\u00a0however, rises every morning and sets every evening.\u00a0Like the motions of the sun, God guides us to make our faith constant and consistent.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Rabbi Evan Moffic: Consistency is not just practical. It is sacred.\u00a0 In the Talmud\u2014the ancient book of Jewish laws and wisdom\u2014the rabbis debate the most important verse of the Bible.\u00a0 One rabbi says it is the Shema. We know that prayer. Jesus quoted it as well. Taken from Deuteronomy 6:4, it reads, “Hear, O […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,144,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-judaism","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}